Our Town Companionship

Our Town is about the daily lives of two families living in Groves Corner, New Hampshire. It follows the budding relationship between Emily Webb and George Gibbs. We see the family go through a daily ritual just as other American families. The mother cooks breakfast, children go to school, and father goes to work. The paperboy delivers the newspaper and the milkman delivers milk. Relationships develop overtime and death occurs. Our Town shows the three stages of life consisting of birth, love and

way is Our Town a work of sentimental fiction and social satire? Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is remembered as a sweet, sentimental, and simple production presented over the years. Wilders play defies the most conventional theatrical genres. Our Town is a work of sentimental fiction because it shows the transience of human life. This play connects all the people living in the small town of Glover’s Corners. In a small town such as Glover’s Corners everybody knows one another within the town therefore

of life that occur in the play Our Town. These three stages have a central theme of love and life as well as have a religious affiliation. The religious affiliation with the play is brought to life with the numerous appearances of the hymn "Blest Be The Tie That Binds.” The “tie” in the hymn refers to the tie between the Holy Spirit and humans as well as the tie between Emily and George. But, an even more prevalent message throughout the play and hymn is that our time on earth and human interaction

Aaron Keime Mr. Sissel English 11(B) 3-16-15 Our Town Literary Analysis The play Our Town is made by Thornton Wilder. It takes place in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, a very small town. In Our Town, Thornton Wilder shows us how to live like better by making more time for loved ones and that live goes by fast. One of Our Town’s main theme in my opinion is that life is futile. Almost every character in the play can be used to support this analysis. Throughout this paper I will examine how characters

Our Town by Thornton Wilder focuses on the lives of the residents of small town Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire in the early 1900s, more specifically, the lives of young George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Throughout Act I, Thornton describes the daily lives of the people of Grover’s Corners. The milkman delivers the day’s milk, the paperboy brings the morning paper, mothers prepare breakfast, and children get ready for school. The day winds down, everyone has had their supper, homework is finished, and

representation of the society live in the time that it is played; as a social opinion, but the common thing in all the plays is that they portray an immense amount of ideas and concepts, that in a way, are transmitted into the audience. In the play Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses symbolism, theme, and motif, as a unified concept to express a social observation towards the American life in the 1900’s, which in the beginning of the play is stated as ordinary and common, but as the play continues, it is

was honed at Yale where he was a part of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity which is a literary society. In 1926, he earned his M.A. in French from Princeton University. Wilder won Pulitzer Prizes for The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928, Our Town in 1938, and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942. He also

The Skin of Our Teeth: Themes & Style | "The Skin of Our Teeth stands head and shoulders above the monotonous plane of our moribund theatre--an original, gay-hearted play that is now and again profoundly moving, as a genuine comedy should be" (Northeastern Illinois University). This was what Brooke Atkinson wrote in New York Times upon the agreement of most reviewers that Thorton Wilder had produced a work that would revitalize American theatre. Disrupting traditional notions of linear time, Wilder's

Our Town, a theatrical production directed by Roseann Sheridan, recreates the day-to-day activities of ordinary citizens living in a small New Hampshire town. The stage manager (played by Denzel Taylor) introduces the audience to the Webb and Gibbs households, who the entire play revolves around. The Webb and the Gibbs represent the typical family in present day society who live about their lives and fail to acknowledge and appreciate the small joys of life. The play Our Town uses a contrast in scenic

Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize

     In the play “Our Town”, by Thornton Wilder, a character by the name of Simon Stimson makes a very insightful statement about people and their lives. Simon is dead and buried, as well as several of the play’s other characters, when a newly-dead young woman named Emily joins their ranks and begins to realize the triviality and ignorance of her existence, as well as that of every living person. The dead are discussing this insignificance and unawareness of the living when

of San Luis Rey, which was published in 1927. The publicity and recognition from this novel allowed Thornton to quit his teaching job, so he could write full-time. Soon after, he became a literary star. Our Town is narrated and introduced by the Stage Manager, who welcomes the audience to a town called Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire, early in the morning in May, 1901. In the opening scene, the stage in very empty, with the exception of some tables and chairs that represent the homes of the Webb

as the spokesman for Wilder’s propaganda to bring to light what is positive and encouraging in the American society. He will show what happens in Grover’s Corners, “In our town we like to know the facts about everybody”(I.9)13. The society here is depicted as conducting a very happy life. As a matter of fact, “Living in “our town’’ includes a social unity and harmony with nature, the fulillment of the individual within the community.” 14 Such a harmony stands behind the source of happiness strongly

human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute? (Emily Webb, Act III)” Our Town presents life as it truly is; as humans, we tend to only remember the big events in our life, and neglect the minute details. Throughout the book, Wilder entertains the notion that humans have learned to seemingly distance themselves from anything that doesn’t have immediate value to their memories. Our Town proves this notion by examining key aspects of the average person’s life in Grover’s Corners-

reader. In this play our town the play our town, Thornton Wilder communicates the theme of life by having a narrator help describe the story and what is going to happen by showing the characters at the start of their relationship, telling how each relationship relates to the story, and by explaining their life. In act one they start the act on an open stage no props and curtain less. The stage manager enters the story and introduces the play. He tells us the setting the town of Grover’s Corners